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« Reply #2926 on: February 03, 2024, 09:41:02 AM »
Soviet spy Colonel Oleg Penkovsky provided valuable information about the status of the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons to both the CIA and British intelligence. The KGB arrested him on October 22, 1962, in Moscow and most likely executed him shortly after.
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« Reply #2927 on: February 03, 2024, 10:09:13 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

The Day the Music Died (1959)
During an extensive tour of the midwestern US, American rock-and-roll musician Buddy Holly chartered a small plane to transport him to his next gig. Fellow performers Richie Valens and J.P. Richardson, who was known as "The Big Bopper," filled the remaining seats. Tragically, the plane crashed, killing everyone on board. The event was later called "the day the music died" by Don McLean in his song "American Pie."
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« Reply #2928 on: February 04, 2024, 09:00:48 AM »
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Chávez Leads Coup d'État against Venezuelan President Pérez (1992)
In 1989, Venezuelan President Carlos Pérez returned to office amid demonstrations and riots sparked by deteriorating social conditions. Three years later, Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chávez led an unsuccessful coup against Pérez and was jailed as a result. Pérez escaped another coup attempt later that year, but in 1993 he was removed from office on corruption charges and later imprisoned on charges of embezzlement and misuse of public funds.
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« Reply #2929 on: February 04, 2024, 09:42:43 PM »
Namesake of Offutt Field and Offutt Air Force Base - Jarvis Offutt - A graduate of Yale University, Jarvis Offutt entered WWI as a ferry pilot with the British Royal Air Force and flew new airplanes every day from factories to holding fields over the English Channel. He was killed practicing an aggressive maneuver in an S. E. 5 airplane over France in 1918. He was the first WWI casulty from Omaha. He was mistakenly buried in Pennsylvania under the name of Private Walter Heltman until 1923 when his body was exhumed and returned home to Omaha. Offutt field was named for him in 1924 and Offutt Air Force Base was named in 1948. — in Offutt Air Force Base, NE.

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« Reply #2930 on: February 05, 2024, 07:46:45 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
Royal Greenwich Observatory Begins Broadcasting Hourly Time Signals (1924)
The Greenwich Time Signal, popularly known as "the pips," is a series of six short tones broadcast by many BBC radio stations at the end of each hour to mark the precise start of the following hour. Devised by Astronomer Royal Frank Dyson in 1924, the signal consists of six pips that occur on the five seconds leading up to the hour, with the beginning of the sixth pip marking the actual moment when the hour changes.
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« Reply #2931 on: February 06, 2024, 08:51:00 AM »
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The Munich Air Disaster (1958)
In 1958, a British European Airways airliner carrying the Manchester United soccer team along with a number of staff members, supporters, and journalists crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway at Germany's Munich-Riem airport. Twenty-three of the 44 passengers on board died in the disaster. There was speculation that the club would have to fold, but the threadbare team completed the season
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« Reply #2932 on: February 06, 2024, 09:10:24 AM »
Really sad, you'd think after a couple of failed attempts they'd just call it off and wait for better conditions.
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« Reply #2933 on: February 06, 2024, 09:55:32 AM »
3rd time wasn't a charm
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« Reply #2934 on: February 07, 2024, 08:18:44 AM »
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The Cripple Creek Miners' Strike (1894)
In 1891, gold was discovered on a cattle ranch in Cripple Creek, Colorado, creating one of the richest camps of a major gold-producing area. Two years later, the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) was established by the merger of several local miners' unions in the Rocky Mountain states. In 1894, the WFM led a five-month strike in Cripple Creek, resulting in a victory for the miners. The strike began when mine owners attempted to lengthen the work day—with no increase in pay
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« Reply #2935 on: February 07, 2024, 08:36:37 PM »
After Joachim Neumann, a civil engineering student, escaped East Berlin by pretending to be a Swiss tourist, he spent the next five months digging a tunnel from West to East Berlin. He ultimately helped his girlfriend and 57 other people escape.
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« Reply #2936 on: February 08, 2024, 07:31:33 AM »
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The Orangeburg Massacre (1968)
In the Orangeburg massacre, local police in Orangeburg, South Carolina, fired into a crowd of about 200 people protesting segregation, killing three students and injuring 27 others. Although the incident predated the Kent State shootings and Jackson State killings and was the first incident of its kind on a US college campus, the Orangeburg Massacre received relatively little media coverage.
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« Reply #2937 on: February 09, 2024, 07:52:26 AM »
Laura Scudder created the first modern bag of potato chips in 1953. Previously, they were sold out of wooden barrels or scooped from behind glass counters.
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« Reply #2938 on: February 10, 2024, 05:09:22 PM »
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HMS Dreadnought Is Launched (1906)
The HMS Dreadnought of the Royal Navy was a battleship that revolutionized naval power when it entered service in 1906. Dreadnought represented such a marked advance in naval technology that its name came to be associated with an entire generation of battleships, the "dreadnoughts," as well as the class of ships named for it, while the generation of ships it made obsolete became known as "pre-dreadnoughts."
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« Reply #2939 on: February 11, 2024, 05:37:07 AM »


When I was a kid, I'd draw pictures of ships with guns everywhere not knowing how massive a full gun emplacement has to be.  
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